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terebinthine

[ ter-uh-bin-thin, -thahyn ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to the terebinth.


terebinthine

/ ˌtɛrɪˈbɪnθaɪn /

adjective

  1. of or relating to terebinth or related plants
  2. of, consisting of, or resembling turpentine
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of terebinthine1

First recorded in 1505–15; terebinth + -ine 1
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Example Sentences

All around stood the ever-changing wilderness; lofty, perpendicular beeches, terebinthine oaks, with an occasional dark-green pine.

Who can tell whether our New England climate, with all its consumptive provocations, might not be found absolutely unendurable but for the amelioration furnished by this generously diffused terebinthine prophylactic?

It was a high region of rolling country, heavily wooded with magnificent pine forests, rich in terebinthine resources.

Many families from New Orleans, and other exposed situations, retire to the pine barrens of Louisiana, in the hot and sickly season, where limpid streams, flowing over a pebbly bed, and a terebinthine atmosphere are enjoyed.

It is of these knots they make their tar in New-England, and the country adjacent, whilst they are well impregnated with that terebinthine, and resinous matter, which like a balsom, preserves them so long from putrefaction.

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